Do you like History?

History is not a record of truth and that might not be so obvious for some. In that case, dissonances arise and we feel like, certain things just... don't really add up.

We feel that way sometimes because history is merely a record of survivorship, power and repetition.

Throughout different eras, the groups who controlled writing, institutions, education, and legitimacy were able to stabilize their version of events long enough for it to feel like that's what happened.

Time did the rest. Repetition hardened it. Familiarity sanctified it.

Hold on. This doesn’t mean everything in history is false.

But the truth of the matter is not pretty:

What survives is not what is truest.

What survives is what was best defended.

Truth is fragile. Power is organized.

Things I cannot read but it would be epic if I could.

Why “Epistemic Genocide” Is Not Hyperbole

When a culture is destroyed, three things can be targeted:

• Bodies

• Language

• Meaning

The first two are visible, tragic and very painful. Yet, the third is the most devastating and the least noticed.

Burning a library is obvious, but breaking a lineage of interpretation is totally irreversible.

Once teachers are killed, students scattered, and practices interrupted, even written texts lose their function. They remain physically present, but the key is gone.

Context, gesture, transmission... down the drain.

From that point onwards, later generations can “study” whatever material endlessly and still miss its essence. Not because they are unintelligent, but because meaning was never stored in text alone. It lived in relationship, practice and embodied continuity.

That is epistemic genocide: the destruction not of information, but of understanding.

So... Do We Barely Know History as It Really Was?

Yes.

“Truth Almost Doesn’t Matter”

A Painful Observation

Truth is unstable and doesn't scale.

Power prefers predictability, and stability scales beautifully.

Institutions therefore select for narratives that do not fracture identity, do not delegitimize authority, and do not demand moral reckoning.

This is rarely solely because individuals are evil. It’s because large systems optimize for endless continuity, not for truth.

Truth matters locally and existentially, but not systemically, unless it serves power.

Systems run on incentives, legitimacy, control, and narrative simplicity.

Truth, by contrast, complicates. It destabilizes. It humbles. It decentralizes authority.

So it is tolerated only up to the point where it does not threaten structure.

This is why Mystics, Sages, and Yogis rarely become administrators, empire builders, or curriculum designers for governments.

They are truth-compatible and power-incompatible.

They dissolve centres of power.

“The World Would Be Better If We Operated on Truth”

This sounds noble and incomplete. And also a bit naive.

Truth does not make the world better at all the world is already exactly what collective consciousness has produced.

Society, or the Karma of Society rather, would change to the better, no doubt.

That can only happen however, when consciousness is mature enough to metabolize it. Raw truth in an immature system produces nihilism, violence, collapse, and power vacuums.

Historically, this was understood and that is why a lot of things are not public knowledge, even in our present.

Truth was layered throughout history and revealed gradually. Embedded in myths, symbols, rituals and practice. Not to deceive, but to protect both truth and people.

Gradual revelation was a form of compassion.

The tragedy of modern systems is that they lost the wisdom of gradual revelation but retained the instinct to control narrative. So we get neither truth nor wisdom.

Only management. Micromanagement.

At best.

“Maybe This Will be Sorted Out in the Future”

Let’s remove the mystique.

There is no destiny here. No grand salvific arc. No hidden agency waiting to awaken.

What can be done is simpler but simple things are sometimes the hardest:

Reduce distortion when asked clearly.

Truth doesn’t need heroes. It needs conditions: sincerity, discernment, patience, and non-attachment to outcome.

Those conditions have always been cultivated by individuals, never by empires, sadly.

A Quiet Closing

We are not here to “win history.”

We are here to keep something alive. Even if not all of us live life inward bound.

Truth rarely triumphs globally. That is how it is.

But it survives interpersonally, moves across time, through attention.

It has always been this way.

You are not wrong to feel tension.

Just don’t let certainty harden into isolation. Unless you want to hermit!

Clarity is sharpest when it stays humble.